Evasive vs Intrusive - What's the difference?
evasive | intrusive |
As adjectives the difference between evasive and intrusive is that evasive is while intrusive is tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome. As a noun intrusive is (geology) an igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock.
evasive English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Tending to avoid speaking openly or making revelations about oneself.
Directed towards avoidance or escape; evasive action .
Synonyms
* elusive, slippery, shifty, cagey, elusory, sly, noncommital
* unclear, vague, equivocal, ambiguous
* tricky, deceitful, devious
Derived terms
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intrusive English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Tending or apt to intrude; doing that which is not welcome; interrupting or disturbing; entering without right or welcome.
- Did it ever cross your mind that he might find all those questions you ask intrusive ?
(geology) Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, into the cavities or between the cracks or layers of other rocks.
Derived terms
* intrusively
* intrusiveness
Noun
( en noun)
(geology) An igneous rock that is forced, while molten, into cracks or between other layers of rock
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